Patreon May Be Coming For NSFW Anime Art
Patreon may be cracking down on "NSFW Anime art," which you might know as Hentai, according to artists on the platform.
The rumor spread after Taiwanese artist Waero reported that he had been notified by the site who told him he had to adjust his content. The guidelines said that NSFW work was fine but it had to "unquestionably" feature adults. In a supposed follow-up email, the person reviewing his work said that the face of his characters had to look adult and that features such as big breasts and hips did not do enough to make the distinction clear.
According to Waero, the ruling is not based on the age of the actual character, but of how they look, meaning hypothetically, sexual art featuring a character of legal age could fall under Patreon's guidelines. For example, Waero said that a depiction of Astolfo from Fate/Grand Order, who is 19, was deemed in violation by Patreon.
What's confusing is that the ruling in this scenario is clearly not objective, and the adjudicators of what constitutes "too young-looking" may be overly punitive towards anime artists. Speaking to The Daily Dot, Japanese media critic Haru Nicol said, “The wording seems to just focus on a reductive view of what a woman looks like… (It) focuses on euro-centric views on femininity. Japanese women do look young to a western person, so that ruling is xenophobic/racist.”
The situation has proven frustrating for NSFW artists, who have reported seeing human/bipedal animal furry art ruled in violation as well as aged-up young character art in recent months.
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lolkitten
A good step forward
Obamium-987
One small step for a website, one giant leap for mankind
GojiBob
The Virgin Patreon vs The Chad Subscribestar
mammon
ok this is like another Tumblr waiting to happen lol
shadow_lepus
I'm in my late 20s, still occasionally mistaken for a high school student, and getting pretty sick of all this "if you look young anyone who finds you attractive is a pedo" narrative that's been gaining traction over the past decade.
Kommando_Kaijin
I believe legislation should be introduced to prevent stuff like this from happening.
It should, in short:
-Prohibit unclear or ambiguous rules and guidelines
-Prohibit the website from defining 'Adult' as anything besides what the country they're currently in defines 'Adult' as.
-Require websites to acknowledge that This is Not a Pipe, A drawing is not equivalent to a photograph and it if the artist states it is something: it is an image of exactly what the artist said it was. If I draw a drawing that looks like a plane, but I, the artist, say it is a dog then it is very well a drawing of a dog, albeit a dog that very heavily resembles a plane but a drawing of a dog nontheless.
Red123
Subscribestar:
NFTs are bad for the enviroment